The ID3v2 tag is placed at the beginning of an audio file. If there isn't any ID3v2 tag in a file, there is also no space reserved for it. That is why a new temporary file needs to be created which will store the tag. Then, the audio data from the old file needs to be appended to the newly created one. This procedure will stress the hard disk, resulting in a long operating time. If you want to edit an existing ID3v2 tag, the editing procedure will take less.Deleting an ID3v2 tag will also take long, as the audio data from the tagged file needs to be copied to a new file.

If you don't mind the ID3v1 30 characters limitations of the Artist, Album, etc. fields, you can use the ID3v1 tag type instead. This is placed at the end of the file and with its 128 bytes size it is very quickly written.

Mp3tag also supports the APEv2 tag for MP3 files, which can be written, edited and read quickly. Its only disadvantage is that the only player capabile of dealing with it is foobar2000.

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There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

In order to edit a filename, please press the [F2] key in the file view. After editing the file's name, press the [RETURN] key to jump to the next file.

For editing the tags, it is recommended to use the input fields of the Tag Panel. You change a title for example and then press the keys [CTRL+S] to save the tag (or File > Save tag). After that [CTRL+N] jumps to the next file.

If you don't want to manually save after each change you can enable the Save tags when using arrow-keys/single mouse click option under Options > Tags. It will save you from clicking the Save icon or pressing the key combination [CTRL+S] to write the changes to the files.

This post has been edited by Florian: Oct 11 2009, 20:42

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There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Open the configuration dialog by pressing [CTRL+O] and navigate to Tags. There you will find two nodes: Mpeg and Ape, Mpc .... The first node will tell MP3Tag how to deal with MPEG Audio files, while the second node is responsible for all other supported formats (Monkey's Audio, FLAC...).

If you want to transfer APEv2 tags to ID3v2 and ID3v1 tags for example, you select the reading of APEv2 tags and the writing of ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. After applying the settings by pressing the OK button, select the files which should be re-tagged, press [CTRL+X] and then [CTRL+V]. If you don't want to remove the APEv2 tag format after the transfer, press [CTRL+C] instead of [CTRL+X] or simply select the tag formats to write from the MP3Tag options, select the the files and click on .

Please notice that not all formats support ID3v2 tags. In that case, only ID3v1 and APEv2 tags will be available.

This post has been edited by Sebastian Mares: Jan 6 2006, 10:52

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There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Although this should be the same in each Windows program (including Windows Explorer), I will describe the steps required in order to select multiple files.

In order to select a block of files, click the first file of the block, hold the [SHIFT] key pressed and select the last file of the block. If you don't want to select a block, but individual files, hold down the [CTRL] key while clicking on the desired files.

In order to select multiple file blocks...

Select the first file of the first block.

Hold the [SHIFT] key pressed, select the last file of the first block and then release the [SHIFT] key.

Then hold the [CTRL] key pressed and select the first file of the second block.

After that hold both the [CTRL] and the [SHIFT] keys pressed and select the last file of the second block.

By repeating the last two actions, you can select as many blocks as you want.

This post has been edited by Florian: Nov 5 2010, 09:48

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There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.